OLIVER ELLSWORTH, THOMAS SEYMOUR and EZEKIEL WILLIAMS
Oliver Ellsworth, Thomas Seymour and Ezekiel Williams, members of
Connecticut's Committee of the Pay Table during the American Revolutionary War,
signed this document in 1776 to pay a captain 2 pounds, 19 shillings and 2
pence.
Manuscript Document signed: "TSeymour", "Ez Williams"
and "O. Ellsworth" as "Comtee".1 page, 8x4, docketed on
verso. March 29, 1776. Ellsworth, Seymour and Williams signed this
document to pay Capt. Asael Hall 2 pounds, 19 shillings and 2 pence. The
military finances for the colony of Connecticut were handled by the Pay-Table,
also known as the Committee of Four, during the American Revolution
(1775-1783). Pay-Table members rotated during the lengthy confrontation with
England, and included such notables as jurist OLIVER ELLSWORTH, attorney
Oliver Wolcott, Jr. (a future U.S. Secretary of the Treasury), Hezekiah Rogers
(an aide de camp to General Jedediah Huntington, who was also a member), William
Moseley, Fenn Wadsworth, Eleazer Wales and General Samuel Wyllys, son of
Governor George Wyllys. Financing the Revolution laid a heavy burden upon
each colony, especially those which balked at levying taxes. In order to
meet immediate needs, such as wages, the colonies relied upon wealthy
revolutionists, foreign loans, and taxes and gifts from abroad. Connecticut
issued promissory notes such as this. Issuing paper money was only a temporary
solution, and worthless without specie or gold and silver backing. The U. S.
would establish its standard monetary system in 1791. ELLSWORTH
(1745-1807, born in Windsor, Connecticut) represented Connecticut in the
Continental Congress from 1777 to 1784 and was a Judge of the Connecticut
Superior Court from 1785 to 1789. A delegate to the Constitutional
Convention in Philadelphia, he helped broker the "Connecticut Compromise",
which broke the impasse between large and small states over representation in
Congress. He was one of Connecticut's first two U. S. Senators, serving from
1789 to March 8, 1796, when he resigned, having been appointed Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court by President George Washington. While in Congress, he
drafted the Judiciary Act of 1789, which organized the federal judiciary system.
He retired from the Court in 1799. WILLIAMS (1729-1818) was a successful
Wethersfield, Connecticut merchant who served throughout the war as Commissary
of Prisoners held in Connecticut. He was a member of the Committee of the Pay
Table for Connecticut from 1775 and sheriff of Hartford County from 1767 to
1789. SEYMOUR (1735-1829, born in Hartford, Connecticut) was a colonel
with the Volunteer Connecticut Light Horse during the Revolutionary War and was
the first mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (1774-1812). Lightly toned and bowed.
Show-through from verso, which touches manuscript writing but not signatures.
Light tears at left and right edges. Irregular right and bottom edges. Random
ink stains. Folded in quarters and unfolded. Pinhole along horizontal fold.
Otherwise in fine condition.

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